15/09/2025
Wearables + PT = higher exercise adherence.
Tracking steps = accountability.
Currently, more studies are needed that examine the step counting accuracy of wrist-worn devices. By using step counters in physical activity interventions, we have learned that they facilitate behavior change and can be helpful in motivating inactive individuals to increase their activity levels by about 2500 steps per day (the equivalent of walking 1 mile). The development of wearable medical devices will bring exciting new advances, as physicians seek to assess their patient’s stepping behaviors, along with vital signs and clinical disease biomarkers. These new medical devices will interface with the electronic medical record and require new levels of privacy control. High levels of accuracy, especially among older and disabled patients who walk slowly and with altered gait, will be of paramount importance for wearable medical devices.
👉 Do you track your steps?"
Step counting has long been used as a method of measuring distance. Starting in the mid-1900s, researchers became interested in using steps per day to quantify ambulatory physical activity. This line of research gained momentum after 1995, with the ...
